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+Suspend/Hibernation Notifiers
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+=============================
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+::
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+ Copyright (c) 2016 Intel Corp., Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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+There are some operations that subsystems or drivers may want to carry out
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+before hibernation/suspend or after restore/resume, but they require the system
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+to be fully functional, so the drivers' and subsystems' ``->suspend()`` and
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+``->resume()`` or even ``->prepare()`` and ``->complete()`` callbacks are not
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+suitable for this purpose.
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+For example, device drivers may want to upload firmware to their devices after
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+resume/restore, but they cannot do it by calling :c:func:`request_firmware()`
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+from their ``->resume()`` or ``->complete()`` callback routines (user land
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+processes are frozen at these points). The solution may be to load the firmware
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+into memory before processes are frozen and upload it from there in the
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+``->resume()`` routine. A suspend/hibernation notifier may be used for that.
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+Subsystems or drivers having such needs can register suspend notifiers that
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+will be called upon the following events by the PM core:
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+``PM_HIBERNATION_PREPARE``
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+ The system is going to hibernate, tasks will be frozen immediately. This
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+ is different from ``PM_SUSPEND_PREPARE`` below, because in this case
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+ additional work is done between the notifiers and the invocation of PM
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+ callbacks for the "freeze" transition.
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+``PM_POST_HIBERNATION``
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+ The system memory state has been restored from a hibernation image or an
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+ error occurred during hibernation. Device restore callbacks have been
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+ executed and tasks have been thawed.
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+``PM_RESTORE_PREPARE``
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+ The system is going to restore a hibernation image. If all goes well,
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+ the restored image kernel will issue a ``PM_POST_HIBERNATION``
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+ notification.
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+``PM_POST_RESTORE``
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+ An error occurred during restore from hibernation. Device restore
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+ callbacks have been executed and tasks have been thawed.
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+``PM_SUSPEND_PREPARE``
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+ The system is preparing for suspend.
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+``PM_POST_SUSPEND``
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+ The system has just resumed or an error occurred during suspend. Device
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+ resume callbacks have been executed and tasks have been thawed.
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+It is generally assumed that whatever the notifiers do for
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+``PM_HIBERNATION_PREPARE``, should be undone for ``PM_POST_HIBERNATION``.
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+Analogously, operations carried out for ``PM_SUSPEND_PREPARE`` should be
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+reversed for ``PM_POST_SUSPEND``.
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+Moreover, if one of the notifiers fails for the ``PM_HIBERNATION_PREPARE`` or
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+``PM_SUSPEND_PREPARE`` event, the notifiers that have already succeeded for that
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+event will be called for ``PM_POST_HIBERNATION`` or ``PM_POST_SUSPEND``,
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+respectively.
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+The hibernation and suspend notifiers are called with :c:data:`pm_mutex` held.
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+They are defined in the usual way, but their last argument is meaningless (it is
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+always NULL).
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+To register and/or unregister a suspend notifier use
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+:c:func:`register_pm_notifier()` and :c:func:`unregister_pm_notifier()`,
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+respectively (both defined in :file:`include/linux/suspend.h`). If you don't
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+need to unregister the notifier, you can also use the :c:func:`pm_notifier()`
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+macro defined in :file:`include/linux/suspend.h`.
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